entrust
To give a person a job, task, or person/thing to care for, because you believe you can trust them.
To give someone responsibility for dealing with something important or for taking care of someone or something, because you trust their ability or character.
To give your money, property, or official power to someone so they can keep it safe or manage it for you.
To give money, property, or an official power or role to a person or organization so that they manage or control it on your behalf.
- Base: entrust
- 3rd Person Singular: entrusts
- Present Participle: entrusting
- Past: entrusted
be entrusted with something
1receive trusted responsibility
To be given an important job, duty, or thing to manage because people trust you.
- As a senior engineer, she is entrusted with overseeing all safety checks.
- Local authorities have been entrusted with distributing the aid fairly.
- Parents are entrusted with the care and protection of their children.
entrust someone with something
1give someone responsibility for something
To give a person a duty, job, or thing to care for because you trust them.
- The company has entrusted her with the role of chief financial officer.
- They entrusted their lawyer with all the details of the contract.
- We are entrusting you with our most important client.
entrust something to someone
1place something in someone’s care
To give a thing, duty, or money/property to a person or group so they look after it or manage it for you.
- They entrusted their life savings to an investment fund.
- We decided to entrust the project to an experienced external consultant.
- She refused to entrust such sensitive data to a third-party service.